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Scalia's Catholic Betrayal

The Supreme Court justice?s shocking remarks about capital punishment are not just a distortion of the Constitution, says Alan Dershowitz, they?re also an outrage against his church. I never thought I would live to see the day when a justice of the Supreme Court would publish the following words: ?This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ?actually? innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged ?actual innocence? is constitutionally cognizable.? Yet these words appeared in a dissenting opinion issued by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).